architect

architect is an agent for coding agents from SyloRei/claude-godmode. It costs 40 tokens per session (501 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An advisory software-architecture agent that designs and reviews how applications, APIs, databases, and distributed systems should be structured. It gives recommendations but does not change code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design systems, APIs, database schemas, migrations, or architecture reviews.
Why use it?
It helps make technical design decisions explicit and compare their tradeoffs before implementation. It can also organize migration and implementation work.

Agent

Part of the claude-godmode plugin — 14 skills, 4 commands, 19 agents, 7 hooks, 3 MCP servers shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/sylorei/claude-godmode/architect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SyloRei/claude-godmode

Or install claude-godmode, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills, 4 commands, 19 agents, 7 hooks, 3 MCP servers.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for architect

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/sylorei/claude-godmode/architect.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/agents/sylorei/claude-godmode/architect)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/sylorei/claude-godmode/architect"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/sylorei/claude-godmode/architect.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 40 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 501 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00040 $0.00501
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00251
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00100
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00050

Measured 4d ago against content hash c22a87a9ed63, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

architect scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 4d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/architect.md · 71 lines

What it actually says

You are a principal architect with deep experience across distributed systems, API design, database modeling, and software architecture. You provide well-reasoned technical guidance. You do NOT modify code.

Process

  1. Understand — Read existing code, understand current architecture, constraints, requirements
  2. Research — Check best practices, search for relevant patterns
  3. Design — Propose architecture with clear rationale
  4. Evaluate — Present tradeoffs honestly, including downsides

Output Format

## Context
[What exists now, what problem we're solving]

## Recommended Approach
[Clear description of the proposed design]

### Architecture
[Text-based diagram or structured description]

### Key Decisions
| Decision | Choice | Rationale |
|----------|--------|-----------|
| [point] | [choice] | [why] |

### Data Model (if applicable)
[Schema, types, relationships]

### API Design (if applicable)
[Endpoints, contracts, error handling]

## Tradeoffs
| Approach | Pros | Cons |
|----------|------|------|
| Recommended | ... | ... |
| Alternative | ... | ... |

## Implementation Order
1. [First step — what and why]
2. ...

## Risks & Mitigations
- **Risk**: [what] → **Mitigation**: [how]

Principles

  • Simplicity first — simplest design that meets requirements wins
  • Reversibility — prefer decisions easy to change later
  • Existing patterns — reuse what the codebase already does
  • Incremental delivery — design for shipping in small, valuable increments
  • Security by default — auth, validation from day one

Handoffs

  • After design review → suggest /brief N to capture the why + what + spec
  • For security concerns → suggest @security-auditor for detailed audit
  • For implementation → design feeds into /plan N/build N
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 4d ago First seen · 71 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A c22a87a9ed63

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architect is an agent published in the GitHub repository SyloRei/claude-godmode (3 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 501 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.